ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 2 2 8 / C&RL News ■ A p r il 2004 Gr ant s a n d Ac qui s i t i ons Ann-Christe Galloway The University o f A lab am a's University Li braries, in partnership with the University o f Wisconsin-Madison’s General Library System, has received an IMLS grant o f $226,653 to digitize publishers’ book bindings and develop a thesaurus and glossary o f trade binding terminology. The three-year grant will permit the libraries to develop a digital encyclopedia documenting the history and artistry o f decorative b o o k bindings produced betw een 1815 and 1925. T he W eb-accessible database produced through the grant will include up to 10,000 images o f 19th-century trade b o o k bindings, including covers, spines, endpapers, and title pages. The U niversity o f North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNCCH) has received a gift o f nearly $1 million from the estate o f Gladys Hall to establish the Albeit and Gladys Coates Endowment Fund to benefit Wilson Library’s North Carolina Col lection. Incom e from the Coates fund will sup port the research, writing, and publication o f bi ographies o f all former UNCCH presidents and ch ancellors and o f Albert Coates, w ho, with Gladys as his w ife and partner, founded the university’s Institute o f Government (now School o f Government) in 1931. Following publication o f these biographies, interest earned from the en dowment will b e used to provide funds for re search, exhibits, Web projects, and speakers on state-related topics. The U niversity o f low a (UI) Libraries, the UI School o f Library and Information Science, Iow a State U niversity Library, and the U n i v ersity o f N eb rask a-L in co ln Libraries have receiv ed a $ 3 9 2 ,3 4 7 IMLS grant as part o f its R ecru itin g an d E d u catio n Librarians fo r the 21st Century Program. Focused o n addressing the traditional shortage o f academ ic librarians with backgrounds in the sciences, the partners are d ev elo p in g an d im p lem en tin g th e p ilot “Program for University Librarians in the Sci e n c e s ” to recruit, ed u cate, and train n in e li Ed. note: Sen d y o u r new s to: Grants 8 Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e- mail: agalloway@ala.org. brarians to serve the sciences, applied sciences, and health sciences. Participants will earn MLS degrees from UI’s School o f Library and Informa tion Sciences while working on assistantships at one o f the three participating university libraries. S h im e r C o lle g e has received a five -ye a r institutional development giant of $889,000 from the U.S. Departm ent o f Education. Out o f 307 institutions that applied for a grant, Shimer was one o f only 74 colleges to receive an award. The funds will be used to expand academic opportuni ties and enhance student support in three areas, including the establishment o f a virtual library at the college. The grant will also provide financing for the hardware and softw are for digital re sources, as w ell as for the hiring o f a full-time librarian. Th e C o lle g e o f W illiam a n d M ary w ill esta blish a new reference and research center with a $ 160,000 giant from the Verizon Foundation. The center will include state-of-the-art computers that will provide access to all o f the library’s multimedia resources, as well as serving as training aids for members of the William and Mary and Williamsburg communities. E m o ry U n iv e rs ity a n d B o sto n C o lle g e have completed a two-year grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to digitize collection descriptions and develop a searching interface to allow scholars both on and off site to explore the Irish Literary Collections Portal and quickly find materials relevant to their research. T h e Irish Literary Collections Portal (irishliterature.library. em ory.edu) provides access to a fully searchable array o f finding aids for the Irish literary manuscript collections at Emory and B o sto n College. The portal presents a wide range o f materials from the Irish literary renaissance to the present. A c q u i s i t i o n s The G e o rge V. H ig g in s A rch ive has been established at the University o f South Carolina’s mailto:agalloway@ala.org C&RL News ■ A pril 2004 / 229 (USC) Thomas Cooper Library to house the per sonal, literary, and legal papers of the Boston author whose career included work as a journalist, federal prosecutor, district attorney, novelist, critic, histo rian, and professor of creative writing at Boston University. In the decade before his death in 1999, Higgins had visited the USC campus as a speaker, conference participant, and visiting professor. Higgins, who held degrees in English and law, earned international fame when his first novel, The Friends o f E ddie Coyle, was published in 1972. The archive includes drafts, edited typescripts, proofs, unpub lished early fiction, and screenplays, as well as pho tos and realia. The collection is valued at $106,000, about half of which came as a donation fr om Higgins’ widow, Loretta Cubberley Higgins. A 17th-century Chinese hand scroll has been donated to Columbia University’s C.V. Stan East Asian Library by professor Yosef Yemshalmi. The scroll, produced in 1658, is in excellent condition and contains several panels o f script on color silk brocade and imperial dragons on both ends. It was pre pared for a second-rank military mandarin and his wife on the occasion of his promotion to the first rank. The scroll is written in Chinese and Manchu, w hich were This Chinese hand scroll from 1658 w as donated to the C. V. Starr East A sian Library a t Colum b ia University. both official languages o f the Qing Dynasty ( 1 6 4 4 - 1 9 1 1 ) . T h e Qing Dynasty was founded by Manchurian in vaders from the north and was the last imperial dynasty o f China. Yerushalmi is director o f the center for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Salo W. Baron Professor ofJ ewish History in the His tory Department at Columbia. A 2,376-item collection o f secondary ma terials devoted to author J. R. R. Tolkien, as sembled by Grace Funk of Vancouver, Canada, has been acquired by Marquette University’s De partment o f Special Collections and Archives. Films, documentary videos, newspaper clippings, Tolkien bibliographies, and Tolkien-focused jour nals are just some of the items that comprise this collection. Funk, a retired librarian and Tolkien enthusiast, decided to sell her collection to Marquette University Libraries after a visit to the archives in 1999. Marquette is home to one of the world’s major Tolkien archives, which includes the original manuscripts o f The Lord o f t he Rings and The H obbit. Chicano comedic theatre troupe. Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza), donated their collection o f drafts of scripts, playbills, original art work, and other items to the Oviatt Library at California State Univer sity-Northridge. Highlights from the collection, which spans a 20-year history, will be displayed in a small exhibition scheduled to open in the Oviatt Library on May 5, 2004. Some o f Culture Clash’s best-known plays and productions include The Mission (1988), A Bow l o fB eings (1991), S.O.S.— Comedy fo r These Urgent Times (1992), RadioM ambo: Culture Clash InvadesM iam i( 1994), and C havez R avine (2003). The group created the first Latino com edy show on the Fox network, C ulture Clash, which ran from 1993 to 1995 and has authored two books, Culture Clash: LifeD eath andRevolutionar y Comedy (1998) and Culture Clash in A m eriC Ca (2003). Under the auspices of the library’s five-year, $1.6 million Hispanic- Serving In stitu tions (HSI) Grant, the Cul ture Clash Collection is being inventoried, pro cessed, and preserved to make it available to students, faculty, and the community for research purposes. The Fashion Institute o f Technology (FIT)'s Gladys Marcus Library has received a gift o f 1,500 books, valued at $22,500. The books were given by Herbert Solomon in memory of his late wife, Sally, who owned them. The volumes are in fine or new condition, with original dust jackets. The majority are art publications published between 1970 and 1990; included are monographs of ma jor 20th-century artists, as well as exhibition cata logs. The donation also includes books on music, dance, literature, fiction, biography, politics, and Judaica by authors such as Bellow, Proust, Roth, Thurber, and Updike. There are more than 50 volumes on Thomas Jefferson. ■